THE SEAMEN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.; AN EFFORT TO ABOLISH "BLOOD MONEY" THE CASE OF THE BARK BILLY SIMPSON.

A special meeting of the Seamen's Protective Association met yesterday afternoon at Botanic Hall, No. 68 East Broadway, to listen to the report of a committee on the extortion of "blood money" from sailors shipping on British vessels. The exact wrong of which the sailors complain, seems to be inflicted upon them by a combination between the boarding-masters, the shipping-masters, and the View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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